Video above: A preview from Hearst Television sister station 16 WAPT of their upcoming special, Hurricane Katrina: 20 Years Later. Rocking on his front porch overlooking the Mississippi Sound, former ...

Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating disasters to strike the United States. Katrina claimed the lives of 1,392 ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — One of Mississippi’s largest employers, a shipyard that builds vessels for the Navy and Coast Guard, announced Thursday that it is rebuilding and reopening part of its ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) proclaimed Friday, August 29, 2025, as Hurricane Katrina Remembrance Day in Mississippi. The governor called for a statewide minute of silence ...

On a Thursday morning, three regulars sit in cool darkness. Two shoot pool, another sips a Coors Light. The smell of cigarette smoke clings to walls and hangs in the air. Turtle Landing Bar & Grill, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Ginger Woechan is a familiar face in Mobile. She’s an artist. She even painted FOX10’s Mardi Gras float. She lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast when Katrina demolished her ...

Amtrak is returning to the Mississippi Coast for the first time since Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago. Cities along that route are still living with the storm's aftermath. Stephan Bisaha ...

BILOXI, Miss. -- Meteorologist Richard Knabb was working his first season as a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center when Hurricane Katrina hit Category 5 status in the Gulf of Mexico. He was ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with business owner Ron Ladner about the community he invested in after Hurricane Katrina devasted the town of Pass Christian, on the Mississippi waterfront. KUOW is Seattle ...

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour stands before a wall-size satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it headed for landfall on Aug. 29, 2005. "The eye came in right there over the Pearl River, ...

TUPELO — This weekend marks the day two decades ago south Mississippi was forever changed. Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, and the scars of its deadly ...

When Hurricane Katrina first hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, I was working as a consultant in the Bethesda, Maryland office of Reznick Group (now CohnReznick). Being more than 1,000 ...